WAshingt🍎n Apple Pie

Plant-based Pie Crust recipe:
ingredients:
2 1/2 c. spelt flour
1/2 tsp. Himalayan pink seasalt
1/2 c. Trader Joe’s organic, cold pressed, virgin unrefined coconut oil
1/2 c. Earth Balance soy free buttery spread
1/3 c. + 1 tbsp. cold water

In a large mixing bowl, combine flour, sea salt and coconut oil (in solid form). Cut up earth balance butter into small pieces and chill in freezer for about 3 min before combining it with the flour, salt, and coconut oil. Mix well and add cold water a little bit at a time. Shape dough into two equal size balls. It may help to use a lightly floured piece of parchment paper as a surface to work on and shape the dough. Chill the two balls of dough in a clean bowl in the refrigerator for 1 hour.

Preheat oven to 375 degrees Fahrenheit.

Roll out one ball of dough with a rolling pin into a large flat circle onto a lightly floured piece of parchment paper and carefully place crust into bottom of 9” pie dish.

Cook bottom pie crust for 20 minutes. While the bottom pie crust is cooking, prepare the apple filling.

Naturally Sweet Apple Pie Filling recipe:
ingredients:
8-10 Washington Red Apples (cored and sliced thin with skin on)
1/2 Organic Freshly Squeezed Lemon
2 T Cinnamon
2 T melted coconut oil

Reduce oven heat to 350 °F. Remove partly cooked bottom pie crust from oven. Combine Apple Pie filling ingredients and mix thoroughly in a mixing bowl.

Reduce oven heat to 350 °F. Remove partly cooked bottom pie crust from oven. Combine Apple Pie filling ingredients and mix thoroughly in a mixing bowl.

Layer apple mixture into bottom pie crust.

Prepare second ball of dough the same as first by rolling it out with a rolling pin into a big circle on a lightly floured piece of parchment paper. Transfer the top pie crust to cover the top of the apple pie. It may help to fold the flattened circle shaped pie dough into four (folded twice) when transferring the crust from the parchment paper to the top of the pie and then gently unfold the top layer of pie crust to cover the entire apple pie.

Cook the pie for 50 minutes at 350 °F on the second rack from the bottom in the oven. Let cool and enjoy!

Store in refrigerator up to 1 week or freeze to enjoy later.